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Open Source Software (OSS) is forming the spines of technology infrastructures, attracting millions of talents to contribute. Notably, it is challenging and critical to consider both the developers' interests and the semantic features of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Yiqiao Jin , Yunsheng Bai , Yanqiao Zhu , Yizhou Sun , Wei Wang

Open Source Software for Social Good (OSS4SG) projects aim to address critical societal challenges, such as healthcare access and community safety. Understanding the community dynamics and contributor patterns in these projects is essential…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Mohamed Ouf , Shayan Noei , Zeph Van Iterson , Mariam Guizani , Ying Zou

Understanding the evolution of communities in developer social networks (DSNs) around open source software (OSS) projects can provide valuable insights about the socio-technical process of OSS development. Existing studies show the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Liang Wang , Ying Li , Jierui Zhang , Xianping Tao

The open-source software (OSS) community has historically been dominated by English as the primary language for code, documentation, and developer interactions. However, with growing global participation and better support for non-Latin…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Masudul Hasan Masud Bhuiyan , Manish Kumar Bala Kumar , Cristian-Alexandru Staicu

The development of open source software (OSS) is a broad field which requires diverse skill sets. For example, maintainers help lead the project and promote its longevity, technical writers assist with documentation, bug reporters identify…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Jenny T. Liang , Thomas Zimmermann , Denae Ford

Many real-world networks can be modeled by networks of interacting agents. Analysis of these interactions can reveal fundamental properties from these networks. Estimating the amount of collaboration in a network corresponding to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Mohsen Shahriari , Ralf Klamma , Matthias Jarke

Despite the widespread adoption of open source software (OSS), its sustainability remains a critical concern, particularly in light of security vulnerabilities and the often inadequate end-of-service (EoS) processes for OSS projects as they…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Tapajit Dey , Brian Fitzgerald , Sherae Daniel

Participation of women in Open Source Software (OSS) is very unbalanced, despite various efforts to improve diversity. This is concerning not only because women do not get the chance of career and skill developments afforded by OSS, but…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Bianca Trinkenreich , Igor Wiese , Anita Sarma , Marco Gerosa , Igor Steinmacher

Software systems emerge from mere keystrokes to form intricate functional networks connecting many collaborating modules, objects, classes, methods, and subroutines. Building on recent advances in the study of complex networks, I have…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. R. Myers

We conduct the first comprehensive study of the behavioral factors which predict leader emergence within open source software (OSS) virtual teams. We leverage the full history of developers' interactions with their teammates and projects at…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Jerome Hergueux , Samuel Kessler

Social Coding Sites (SCSs) are social media services for sharing software development projects on the Web, and many open source projects are currently being developed on SCSs. One of the characteristics of SCSs is that they provide a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-09-05 Yuya Yoshikawa , Tomoharu Iwata , Hiroshi Sawada

The social community in open source software developers has a complex network structure. The network structure represents the relations between the project and the engineer in the software developer's community. A project forms some teams…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Takumi Ichimura , Takuya Uemoto

This paper studies community formation in OSS collaboration networks. While most current work examines the emergence of small-scale OSS projects, our approach draws on a large-scale historical dataset of 1.8 million GitHub users and their…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Behnaz Moradi-Jamei , Brandon L. Kramer , J. Bayoan Santiago Calderon , Gizem Korkmaz

The open source development model has become a paradigm shift from traditional in-house/closed-source software development model, with many successes. Traditionally, open source projects were characterized essentially by their individual…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Qingye Jiang , Young Choon Lee , Joseph G. Davis , Ablert Y. Zomaya

Online creative communities have been able to develop large, open source software (OSS) projects like Linux and Firefox throughout the successful collaborations carried out over the Internet. These communities have also expanded to creative…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Giuseppe Iaffaldano

Company engagement in open source (OSS) is now the new norm. From large technology companies to startups, companies are participating in the OSS ecosystem by open-sourcing their technology, sponsoring projects through funding or paid…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Mariam Guizani , Aileen Abril Castro-Guzman , Anita Sarma , Igor Steinmacher

Open Source Software (OSS) security and resilience are worldwide phenomena hampering economic and technological innovation. OSS vulnerabilities can cause unauthorized access, data breaches, network disruptions, and privacy violations,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Nafis Tanveer Islam , Gonzalo De La Torre Parra , Dylan Manual , Murtuza Jadliwala , Peyman Najafirad

The development of Open-Source Software (OSS) is not only a technical challenge, but also a social one due to the diverse mixture of contributors. To this aim, social-coding platforms, such as GitHub, provide the infrastructure needed to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Sergio Cobos , Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo

Software firms participate in an ecosystem as a part of their innovation strategy to extend value creation beyond the firms boundary. Participation in an open and independent environment also implies the competition among firms with similar…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Anh Nguyen Duc , Daniela S. Cruzes , Geir K. Hanssen , Terje Snarby , Pekka Abrahamsson

This chapter defines and presents different kinds of software ecosystems. The focus is on the development, tooling and analytics aspects of software ecosystems, i.e., communities of software developers and the interconnected software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Tom Mens , Coen De Roover